VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.10.1] [Dr PinkCake]

[Journey95]

Then it would be your's list, not his?
Then you'll want to see this
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To each their own but I don't think I have disagreed more with a tier list before..its like the complete opposite for me. Maya and Josie at the bottom while Jill & Isabella are some of the best girls in any adult game

 

[Sorrow85]

No, the first time. When he surprised her playing the piano.

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[Darkmetal]

Can i hit up with Sage if i stop now? View attachment 679945

Since your question indicates you want to continue the sage path, the more pertinent question is...

I mean look at her

Note: Anyway, I believe you can as long as you answer "Yes" to her request to continue to help her investigate Chad when the question comes up after this scene plays out (or dosen't play out in your case).

 

[Cndyrvr4lf]

I think she's Jill's mom. Her flexibility is SIMPLY AMAZING!
I don't know how people view spoilers, so I'm gonna be vague as to who I'm talking about. You'll know if you played the game

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OMG where do you people come from? Ok jokes aside. It has been explained so many times at this point its like listening to a person with extreme OCD repeat himself.

BELLA WAS GOOD FIRENDS WITH JILL'S OLDER SISTER!!!!!!!!!!

Sheesh do you people read the things the characters say in the game or do you just rapid fire click to get to the next nude pic?

 

[PandaXGames]

anyone got a pic on what the keys are for the piano when you break into the house

 

[Tumai]

How do I unlock these two, I have tried loading the game save several times but I don't know how to unlock.


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The fuck are those scenes?
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His game is modded. kghky You should ask that in the Mod thread.

 

[Dependable_223]

The only person i missed in this update was Chad.. Where the hell was he ? i would have figured he still be near the jocks fraternity mansion.

Probably still licking his wounds after the confrontation with mc.. Caleb made Chad looking like a pussy.

 

[Cndyrvr4lf]

anyone got a pic on what the keys are for the piano when you break into the house

Not exactly but I know I pulled up a piano key picture off google and was able to get it right from that

 

[Darkdevil66]

anyone got a pic on what the keys are for the piano when you break into the house

 

[Wizard_Shiryuu]

Maybe a huge fight where both burke and Tybolt gets their asses kicked by mc would be epic. Kind like the above but both burke and Tybolt gets a punch at the end.

Dr PinkCake really out did himself again. This now already feels so big and also the different path. This game actually feels bigger then even his previous game.

It is, we already had the fire scene in AL by episode six, here we are in episode five and it looks we're barely beginning the story.

His game is modded. kghky You should ask that in the Mod thread.

Yeah, I noticed that. I think he can extract which scenes he's missing from my screenshot, though.

 

[DampAnkles]

OMG where do you people come from? Ok jokes aside. It has been explained so many times at this point its like listening to a person with extreme OCD repeat himself.

BELLA WAS GOOD FIRENDS WITH JILL'S OLDER SISTER!!!!!!!!!!

Sheesh do you people read the things the characters say in the game or do you just rapid fire click to get to the next nude pic?

Damn dude settle the fuck down, or your brain's gonna Hemorrhage .
nO I Don't rapid fire through the dialogue, I read everything. I also know it was explained that they're good friends.
yOUR SPELLING IS SUFFERING FROM YOUR OBVIOUS INABILITY TO PROCESS HUMOR.
WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU COMFRUM?
IT WAS A JOKE

 

[Cndyrvr4lf]

Damn dude settle the fuck down, or your brain's gonna Hemorrhage .
nO I Don't rapid fire through the dialogue, I read everything. I also know it was explained that they're good friends.
yOUR SPELLING IS SUFFERING FROM YOUR OBVIOUS INABILITY TO PROCESS HUMOR.
WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU COMFRUM?
IT WAS A JOKE

Uh..... My spelling? COMFRUM?

 

[DampAnkles]

Uh..... My spelling? COMFRUM?

YA YOUR SPELLING ....F I R E N D

 

[PervInAction]

Bella is best girl

 

[Cndyrvr4lf]

YA YOUR SPELLING ....F I R E N D

My bad I also forgot a ' in its.

Edit - For the record "gonna" isn't a word. It's recognized for the spoken language but still considered unacceptable for written. Like "Ebonics" as a real language, that's a big nope.

 

[Dashxp4k]

Tommy is a bitch.

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[NOVASSR]

Since your question indicates you want to continue the sage path, the more pertinent question is...
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I mean look at her

Note: Anyway, I believe you can as long as you answer "Yes" to her request to continue to help her investigate Chad when the question comes up after this scene plays out (or dosen't play out in your case).

Idk man, feels like she is doing it only because is her part of the deal

 

[Mr.Strange]

Well I finished it but feeling like a lot of missing parts. is there still not Episode 5 Official Walkthrough?

 

[RonWeasleyJr]

So how many characters do we know the actual last names of?

MC: Tremolo? (Not sure if it's simply a social media nickname in reference to his guitar playing, or if Tremolo is his actual legal last name.)

Jill: Royce

Rusty: Burgmeister

Cathy: Grant

Jade: Stevens

 

[ename144]

BaDIK is not perfect but compared with other games it really sets standards and is the best game of this type I know. I would rather see it go on as it is than have it shut down soon just to give choices in the game more consequences.

It's a common mantra that games are about choices but this usually applies more to games like chess, which have limited content (chessboard, 2 colors, 6 different pieces, ruleset) and where the player creates his own story, and less to VNs with unique prescribed stories and prescribed decisions.

Major decisions with consequences split a story into exclusive paths and so spread the content over more and more different paths, making the story for each path shorter than it would be without decisions (if we assume the same amount of overall content). BaDIK is published in episodes. If all episodes have about the same size (amount of content) and some major decisions, then the later episodes will only feature an exponential number of progressively shorter stories and players will be disappointed and frustrated.

The affinity system (DIK, neutral, CHICK) is probably the best we can get since it is more like a two-/three-lane highway which simply follows the main story and where the player can decide if he drives left, middle or right to see some special landmarks on his journey. The main part of the content (the highway) remains the same for all players. And unless one does an extreme DIK or CHIK playthrough, most will probably end somewhere in the middle (neutral).

If someone has a working concept for a game with 10-20 episodes of fixed size (100%) and at least one major decision per episode I would be interested to see how the (limited) content can be spread over the increasing number of different story arcs in later episodes without stalling the game.

We say games are about choices because that is what makes them games, rather than novels, movies or the like. The question is how a computer game, which can only output pre-programmed material, handles the potentially staggering amount of variety choice implies.

For the most part, I think BaDIK handles it well. We get lots of small choices that result in small variations (different dialog or renders in the same overall scene), and a few larger choices that add up over time. The real problem is in the presentation.

Episode 4 starts with the Secret Backstory of Josy and Maya(tm), then underscores what a big deal this is by having the MC storm out and move in with Derek/Sage/Bella because he just can't handle the revelation. We spend the rest of Episode 4 watching the MC studiously avoid Maya (who had been his near constant companion) and stew in his sense of betrayal. Finally he agrees to talk to them and (after a very unsatisfying wrap-up I won't rehash here) decides to either keep them as friends or start a three-way relationship with both of them. Crisis resolved.

Enter Episode 5. Here we learn that MCs who chose to be friends are still viewed as lovers by the girls, and MCs who tried for something more will treat the two just like all the other girls he's dating. So glad we finally resolved this!

It gets even more hilarious in some playthroughs where the only other woman the MC is dating is Jill, who will even admit to Bella the MC just isn't that into her. Yet somehow that same MC will choose to spend the night chatting with Bella and Jill rather than head home to his two half-naked girlfriends he wants to have a long talk with. Go figure.

None of this is to say the this isn't a good game, or even that Episode 5 is a bad episode. It's a great game and I enjoyed Episode 5. It just means the pacing of the story is off.

We shouldn't be at this point in the relationship with Maya and Josy if we are not also at a point in the story where the MC can't stop seeing other girls (or deliberately cheat on M&J and face the obvious consequences). It undermines the significance of their relationship to treat them with such disinterest, to say nothing of gutting the drama from the last episode.

So the problem isn't that we have too many choices. The problem is that the game is trying to give us a huge choice before it can acknowledge meaningful consequences to it. That's an acceptable flaw in an otherwise excellent game. My concern is that it is the sort of flaw that grow over time and become something much more harmful.